Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sep 2002 · Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 1 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon).

Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other...

Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...

“What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

Ratings and reviews

Once you start, you fall into the lifestyle of the words and the emotions that she pulls out in every book, then you need to know more, what, who, when, all of it..each book in its own...Anita is and has that fiery power of passion that keeps you learning more about her, and the life she in and deals with ..Laura K. Hamilton is one hot sexy kinky woman who can write from experience and imagination. I love all of her novels, series and comic novels. I see a penguin and smile. Thanks L.K.H

The first handful of books are great but this series (20+ and counting) quickly devolves into "how many sex scenes can I fit into between each cover". I continued reading for a while in the hopes that the original premise of the series would return, but gave up around book 15. If you want a truly supernatural gritty series with fantastic worldbuilding, look elsewhere.

Have always loved Anita Blake. After I bought the first book I read it in 1 night and went back to the book store the next day and bought the rest that were available 4 or 5 more I think. Then I bought the rest as they came out. Fun read. Action, romance, humor. A joy to read.

About the author

Laurell K. Hamilton is a full-time writer and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry series. She lives in a suburb of St. Louis with her family.